The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Posted on 01 March 2018 by Kim Fu

A group of young girls descend on Camp Forever, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire Filled with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home The Lost Girls of Camp Forever traces these five girls Nita, Kayla, Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan through and beyond this fateful trip We see them through successes and failures, loving relationships and heartbreaks we see what it means to find, and define, oneself, and the ways in which the same experience is refracted through different people In diamond sharp prose, Kim Fu gives us a portrait of friendship and of the families we build for ourselves and the pasts we can t escape. Best Download [ The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore ] by [ Kim Fu ] – kino-fada.fr This book didn t work for me at all, mainly due to structural issues that took an interesting premise and turned it into an unnecessary and ultimately unsatisfying mystery for this reader Keeping many of the details from the reader until the end, not providing near enough details, and weaving stories in between select pieces of information about what happened on t...Okay, here is my main opinion on this book It should have been a novella.Basically this book is a collection of vignettes collected together to create a novel And it just doesn t work We start the book following a group of five 9 11 year old girls at a summer camp called Camp Forever They are going on a kayaking trip where they will be camping overnight on an island, and then returning to the camp the next day Something awful happens during this trip, and the girls are stuck in...THE LOST GIRLS OF CAMP FOREVERMORE is a sensitive, evocative exploration of how the past threads itself through our lives, reemerging in unexpected ways Kim Fu skillfully measures how long and loudly one formative moment can reverberate.Hmmthis book was not at all what I expected from the synopsis, so I m having a hard time being objective about it The synopsis makes it sound like a traumatic childhood experience shared by 5 girls, and then following those girls through their lives and seeing how that incident shaped them Instead it is a Chekhov level depressing collection of short stories that are loosely connected by a central narrative There is no exploration of how the camp incident changed their lives unless, maybe, Hmmthis book was not at all what I expected from the synopsis, so I m having a hard time being objective about it The synopsis makes it sound like a trau...I can t resist a book with an ensemble cast, especially if the characters are thrown together into an unusual or high stakes situation I love trying to get into each character s head and analyzing the group dynamics, the allying and backstabbing And my favorite part, picking which character I relate to the most and rooting for them and maybe actively p...3.5 starsSee me discuss this briefly in my March wrap upPhew Well, I made it through I am glad this was so short, otherwise I would have had to DNF it and I absolutely detest having to do that I really struggled with this one It was so all over the place for me, just not my style at all It was nothing like what I expected and I m not sure what exactly the author was trying to get across I thought, going in, that I did but my thoughts of a modern, girl version of Lord of Flies was completely off base The writing itself was smart but lackluster, Phew Well, I made it through I am glad this was so short, otherwise I would have had to DNF it and I absolutely detest having to do that I really struggled with this one It was so all over the place ... The Lost Girls of Camp Forever is structured so that we have The Incident at camp, alternated by snippets of the lives the girls have led since their time at Camp Forever.You would think that this Incident would play a huge role in the future point of views of these girls I was really expecting it to be intensely amplified, for Kim Fu to go heavy with her strokes and consequently alter the lives of her characters based on the one shared but very individual experience What we get is a s The Lost Girls of Camp Forever is structured so that we have The Incident at camp, alternated by snippets of the lives the girls have led since their time at Camp Forever.You would think that this Incident would play a huge role in the future point of views of these girls I was really expecting it to be intensely amplified, for Kim Fu to go heavy with her strokes and consequently alter the lives of her characters based on the one shared but very individual experience What we get is a slight nod to that Incident here and a passing mention there in these POVs, and a very subtle underlying theme of loss and being lost.Do I feel cheated by what I thought I d get from this book Yes Do I feel like this novel was any lesser No, actuall...Review soon.Five girls on a camping trip suddenly find themselves stranded in the middle of a dense Pacific Northwest forest This survival story alternates with stories from the girls lives in the aftermath, as teenagers and adults The idea being, I think, that they are just as much lost souls as grownups as they were when literally lost in the bush as kids THE LOST GIRLS is a character driven novel first and foremost, but it also boasts an interest...

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01 March 2018

Kim Fu